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Rhodesia
[ roh-dee-zhuh ]
Rhodesia
/ rəʊˈdiːʃə; -zɪə /
noun
- a former name (1964–79) for Zimbabwe
Notes
Other Words From
- Rho·desian adjective noun
Example Sentences
Furmanovsky grew up in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, before moving to London at the age of 11, which she called a "traumatic change".
The 75-year-old was born in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and made Edinburgh his home after studying there.
He put pressure on Rhodesia's white minority government to give up power, but was accused of ignoring the Argentine junta's "disappearances" of its critics.
In the 1970s, Beijing built the Tazara Railway from landlocked Zambia to Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam port, allowing copper exports to circumvent white-minority-ruled Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa.
In the 1970s, Beijing built the Tazara Railway from landlocked Zambia to Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam port, allowing copper exports to circumvent white-minority ruled Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa.
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